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The First Ten Books by Confucius
$12.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction | Series: Penguin Great Ideas | Reading Level: very good
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you t ...Show more
The Freedom to Be Free by Hannah Arendt
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Category: Philosophy, Spirituality & Religion | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
'People can only be free in relation to one another.' Three exhilarating and inspiring essays in which the great twentieth-century political philosopher argues that there can be no freedom without politics, and no politics without freedom. One of twenty new books in the bestselling Penguin Great Ideas ...Show more
The Future of an Illusion by Sigmund Freud
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Category: Philosophy, Spirituality & Religion | Series: Penguin Great Ideas | Reading Level: good
This investigation of religion by greatest psychoanalyst of the twentieth-century explores the role faith can take in the life of man, what it can mean to us and why as a species we are inclined towards it. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourse ...Show more
The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln
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Category: Philosophy, Spirituality & Religion | Series: Penguin Great Ideas | Reading Level: very good
The Address was delivered at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on the afternoon of Thursday, November 19, 1863, during the American Civil War, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated those of the Confederacy at the decisive Battle of Gettysburg ...Show more
The Inner Life by Thomas à Kempis
$11.95 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves--and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives--and destroyed them.Now, Penguin brings you the ...Show more
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
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Category: Philosophy, Spirituality & Religion | Series: Penguin Great Ideas | Reading Level: very good
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you t ...Show more
The Painter of Modern Life by Charles Baudelaire
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Category: Non-fiction | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
Poet, aesthete and hedonist, Baudelaire was also one of the most groundbreaking art critics of his time. Here he explores beauty, fashion, dandyism, the purpose of art and the role of the artist, and describes the painter who, for him, expresses most fully the drama of modern life. "Great Ideas": throug ...Show more
The Power of Words (Penguin Great Ideas Series) by Simone Weil
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Category: Essays & Anthologies | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
'There are certain words which possess, in themselves, when properly used, a virtue which illumines and lifts up towards the good' The philosopher and activist Simone Weil was one of the most courageous thinkers of the twentieth century. Here she writes, with honesty and moral clarity, about the manip ...Show more
The Sickness Unto Death by Soren Kierkegaard
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Great Ideas | Reading Level: very good
Influencing philosophers such as Sartre and Camus, and still strikingly modern in its psychological insights, Kierkegaard's "The Sickness Unto Death" explores the concept of 'despair' as a symptom of the human condition and describes man's struggle to fill the spiritual void. Throughout history, some bo ...Show more
The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Category: Non Fiction | Series: Penguin Great Ideas | Reading Level: near fine
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the w ...Show more
The Spectacle of the Scaffold by Michel Foucault
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Category: Non Fiction | Series: Penguin Great Ideas | Reading Level: very good
Foucault's writings on power and control in social institutions have made him one of the modern era's most influential thinkers. Here he argues that punishment has gone from being mere spectacle to becoming an instrument of systematic domination over individuals in society - not just of our bodies, but ...Show more
The Symposium by Plato
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Category: Non Fiction | Series: Penguin Great Ideas | Reading Level: very good
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you t ...Show more